Think about room logistics:

How do you use the room most? What types of activities are common in this room? What are the room's lighting sources? What is the size of the room? Does the room flow into others or stand alone?

Think about aesthetics:

How do you want to feel when you're in this room? What types of furnishings do you have? What's the style of the room? Traditional? Contemporary? Rustic? What's the feel of the room? Casual? Formal? Somewhere in between?

Consider risk factors:

Will people have food in this room? Will kids play in this room? Will kids play with their food in this room? Does the room directly open up to the outside? Do you have indoor pets?

Understand expectations:

Is your new flooring purchase motivated by style or practical reasons? Are you living with this new flooring or planning to sell your home? What's the first thing you want to notice when you enter the room?

Carpet

Is designed to enhance the beauty and warmth of your home with a wide variety of styles, textures and colors and should be used anywhere in your home where comfort and warmth are a priority. Carpet offers you more warmth, softness and is much quieter than any other floor covering. With today's high quality carpet and premium construction the right carpet can offer exceptional durability and lasting value.

Are you looking for a traditional plush carpet? A contemporary loop? Maybe the visual impact of a pattern or print? Color, texture, pattern, loop and twist: we'll explain all the various options when it comes to carpeting your home. Regardless of your experience shopping for floors, we can help you understand the choices and determine your favorites. Since we bring samples right to your home, you can see how different styles, colors and patterns work with your existing decor.

Tile

For an elegant and natural look in high traffic areas, it's hard to beat ceramic tile. Available in glazed or unglazed, tile is a good choice for moisture prone areas like entryways, kitchens or baths. Extremely durable and simple to maintain, it nicely compliments other floor types. Among the most durable of flooring surfaces, tile also proves to offer an amazing array of design flooring possibilities.

Ceramic tile is a mixture of clays and minerals that has been shaped, pressed, then fired at temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees (F), resulting in a hard surface. The protective glaze that is applied before firing gives the ceramic tile added color and finish and makes it resistant to stains, odors, bacteria, and scratches.

Glazed ceramic tile has a ceramic coating applied to the tile body, which gives the tile its color and finish. Glazed ceramic is easy to care for, it resists stains, odors, and dirt and can be cleaned up with a damp mop or sponge or common household cleaners. A properly installed ceramic tile will outperform and outlast nearly any other floor covering product created for the same application.

Hardwood

flooring can add warmth and character to any room. In fact, the natural characteristics of wood add depth and a visual appearance that many other types of floors try to duplicate. You can always count on hardwood floors to add extra value and beauty to your home.

Solid hardwood, like it sounds, is milled from a single 3/4" thick piece of hardwood. Because of its thickness, a solid hardwood floor can be sanded and refinished over several generations of use. One of the characteristics of solid wood flooring is that it expands and contracts with changes in your home's relative humidity. Normally, installers compensate for this movement by leaving an expansion gap between the floor and the wall. Base molding or quarter round is traditionally used to hide the extra space.

Engineered wood is actually produced with three to five layers of hardwood. Each layer is stacked in a cross-grain configuration and bonded together under heat and pressure. As a result, engineered wood flooring is less likely to be affected by changes in humidity, its enhanced structural stability and moisture resistance that allows it to be installed at any grade level.

Laminate

flooring offers a wide selection of designs that offer the look and feel of beautiful hardwood, ceramic tile, and slate. It is actually a composite that's designed to endure more-than-average wear and tear. A direct-pressure manufacturing process fuses four layers into one extremely hard surface. The resulting floor is a technological breakthrough. There's no staining, no fading, and no wear through.

Laminate flooring is incredibly durable and stain resistant. Such problem spills as nail polish, grease, and mustard simply wipe off. It can be installed over many different types of sub flooring. Laminate has great impact and indentation resistance, plus it is affordable and easily replaced later on.

If you want exceptional realism at an affordable cost, then laminate flooring might be right for you!